Press Releases

WASHINGTON, March 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) and Democratic colleagues on the Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee introduced the National Biomedical Research Act today. This bill would increase funding for targeted biomedical research initiatives through a new, reliable funding stream supporting the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration. The purchasing power of

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 2 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, which would restrict women’s access to abortions: “The case under consideration today is rightly regarded as one of the most important women’s health care cases in a generation. Access to safe and

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt), along with 23 Democratic senators, led the charge to extend overtime pay to millions of Americans who are working long hours without fair pay. Last year, the Department of Labor proposed an expansion to overtime pay protections that could benefit five million Americans, including 10,000 Vermonters. The proposal would bring overtime pay

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 – Sen. Bernie Sanders pressed for action to ban private prisons today following a report that the two largest private prison operators in the United States made a combined $361 million in profits last year. The Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest private prison operator, collected $3,356 in profit per prisoner. GEO Group, the country’s second

BURLINGTON, Vt., Feb. 25 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made the following statement after the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation determined several residential and commercial wells in North Bennington contained elevated levels of the chemical, Perfluorooctanoic (PFOA), a possible carcinogen. “I am very concerned that Vermont environmental officials have found high levels of a possible carcinogen in several North Bennington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 – Sens. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Ron Wyden (D–Ore.) and Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) today sent a letter to the Department of Justice and Federal Communications Commission urging the agencies to consider the potential harmful effects that could result from the proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks by